corridor
A collection of sculptural works and mixed media installations
Materials: polycarbonate, epoxy fiberglass, mylar emergency blankets, led lights, vinyl letters
Dimensions: 84in Length x 51in Height x 19in Width
Description: Keepsaker is a phantom ship intended for protection of passage and references a collective constellation of journey and migration. This site responsive work was temporarily installed at Fort Adams in Newport, Rhode Island.
Materials: found rocking chairs, cast iron, hardware, masking tape, canvas, room with indoor window, 82 weybosset street, providence, rhode island
Dimensions: 44in Height x 31½in Width
Description: in • ter • stice explores the spaces between two entities and freezes a moment of both decay and repair. Movement is suggested in the form as well as the bodies whom may have occupied these seats. For this installation the site literally became the frame, and keeps one at a distance.
Materials: Found dollhouse, jars, photos, led lights, tree branches, fabricated floating houses, paper, pens
Dimensions: 7ft Length x 7ft Height x 3ft Width
Description: Wandering Home was created collaboratively by Reiko Fujii, Maggie Yee, Cynthia Tom, and MBWada. The intention of this work was to create an open space to pay homage to personal hungry ghosts that one wishes to release. This traveling installation collected over 300 hand written notes from the public to their self-identified hungry ghosts.
Photo Credits: Reiko Fujii
Materials: barbed, galvanized, and annealed wires, bamboo
Dimensions: 90in Length x 76in Height x 2in Width
Description: This partial ‘fence’ was installed at RumPueng Loudspeaker Community Art Space for a ‘Nasty Women’ exhibition in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Made in response to the social/political/physical borders being constructed in the wake of Trumps’ presidency, its hanging position in the gallery intended to subvert its functionality by allowing passage around and viewership through it.
Materials: altered heirloom chair, found doors, mirror, table, wood, paint
Dimensions: 28in Length x 80in Height x 24in Width
Description: Flux Migration references both isolation and transformation associated with immigration and relocation. The chair was cut in half vertically, inverted and reconfigured side by side. Upon viewing the objects’ reflection in the mirrored sides, the dissected chair halves combine to create two full chairs, and further a multitude of chairs. The two doors with mirrors providing two viewing directions reflect a divergence of one’s pathway, infinitely and indefinitely.
Photo Credits (Left to Right): MBWada, Thomas Schumake, Cris Matos, MBWada
Materials: altered heirloom chairs, fabricated ladders & stilts, paint
Dimensions: 9ft Length x 16ft Height x 3ft Width
Description: Aligning Elevation structurally connects and augments four family heirloom chairs, mimicking houses built on stilts for safety from environmental flooding. This installation speaks to resilience, notions of home, and strength within family.
Photo Credits (Left to Right): MBWada, Reiko Fujii, Reiko Fujii, MBWada
Materials: altered heirloom chair, paint, treated bottles, led lights, fabric, sand
Dimensions: 4ft Length x 10ft Height x 3ft Width
Description: Thirsty Ghosts is a contemporary excavation of hungry ghosts, which are found in many Asian cultures and are typically characterized as lost or unhappy spirits that haunt the living. This piece is simultaneously a memorial/altar for acknowledgment and release.
Photo Credits (Left to Right): Reiko Fujii, Reiko Fujii, MBWada
Materials: carved Carrara marble
Dimensions: 24in Length x 6in Height x 11in Width
Description: With an ear to the page of the book exposes a story of stone through the striations of geological formation on the forefront of its pages. The book can be seen as an invitation to consider the past, history making, civilization and human progress.
Photo Credits: Marilyn Bogerd
Materials: altered light bulb, cast candle
Dimensions: 3in Length x 36in Height x 3in Width
Description: Burning Both Ends is comprised of a candle encased within a light bulb, with the wick of the candle acting as tungsten filament in the bulb as well as exiting from the base of the candle as a hanging mechanism. The composition is intended to infer a melting point where the lines of origin and trajectory blur.
Photo Credit: Marilyn Bogerd
Materials: encaustic digital photos
Dimensions: 17in Length x 5in Height x ¼in Width
Description: This piece speaks to the conundrum that a person is and is not the sum of parts. The images are presented as if specimens to be observed, with the labels: “It is not an Asian,” “It is not an American,” and “It is not a European.”
Photo Credits: Marilyn Bogerd